Dalida told reporters in a press briefing the other day at the EGI Albergo Hotel in Baguio City that storms would most likely shift northwards.

The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) held a two-day disaster imagination workshop roadshow “Iba Na Ang Panahon: Science for Safer Communities” in Baguio City to prepare local officials for disaster risk reduction measures.

The DOST conducted their two-day disaster imagination workshops for Region 1 at the Oasis Country Resort Hotel last Monday and Tuesday.

Dalida said the strong typhoons would bring rainfall that would replenish the water tables and groundwater of northern Luzon.

“Westerly winds will get stonger because of the effect of El Niño and typhoons normally tend to shift northwards, towards Northern Luzon,” Dalida said.

“They have a threshold value of 0.5 degrees Celsius of sea surface temperature anomaly (SSTA) in the central equatorial and eastern Pacific (CEEP) for an average of three months to classify it as El Niño,” Dalida explained.

He said that starting last January up to April the SS sea surface temperature anomaly has been observed to be at 0.4.

By June, he said, it is expected to be at 0.5.

“After five months, by October and November, the sea surface temperature anomaly is expected to be at its peak, resulting in less rainfall in the Philippines,” Dalida said.